Section 5

Anecdotal Evidence
Results from situations that come in mind easily and is of little in scientific research.

Experiment
Experimenter actively imposes treatment on the subject.

Treatment
Variable effect that you study.

Random Assignment
Preferred method of assigning subjects to treatments in an experiment.

Randomized Comparitive Experiment
Each subject has an equal chance of being assigned to any of the treatment groups.

Placebo
Receiving a non treatment and seeing its effects.

Placebo Effect
Response to non-treatment in a medical study.

Blind
Not known of being given the treatment.

Double Blind
Both experimenter and subject do not know of the treatment.


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